Ms. Harper is one of the finest high school teachers at Freeman High School. One of her students, Jay, is developing an extreme crush on her. After one fateful tutoring session, they both kiss and he suddenly vanishes for the rest of the year. When...
On paper, he was her student and she was his teacher - a simple sentence that anyone could dissect. We have our two subjects, two objective pronouns, a verb, two direct objects, an indirect object, a preposition and a conjunction. But if we focus in and read between the lines of this grammatical hoo-ha, we find three words making up a sentence that rings louder than any old high school bell itself: She was his.
And boy was she...
It's a Wednesday: the savior of the week, the promise of the end of the week and most of all, when Freeman High School's finest English teacher, Ms. Amari Harper, gets to see her friends.
Ms. Amari Harper was no ordinary teacher; she was the best in the county and the state. She repeatedly won the English Teacher's Association award easily each year and was adored by parents. These people would pay to have their students moved to her class. She stood 5' 8" in her heels, which she wore periodically, mostly for fashion, never for comfort. Thick brown waves cascaded down her back with auburn streak running through it like a winding stream. Her toasted almond eyes shined like embers right through anyone who caught her gaze.
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"Ugh, how can a person do such a thing! And to their student?" Ms. Harper spoke to her friends in disgust as they huddled around her computer screen in the teacher's longue. Her brown eyes glared at the large bolded letter jutted out from the screen.
Virginia public school teacher charged in the sexual assault of her 16 year old male student.
"I mean, how could you betray a child's trust like that?" she fumed from her chair.
"What are you ladies fussing about? Not about that poor teacher being dragged about on TV and now online?" Mr. Tony Vega, the computer science teacher, trudged to the ladies' small table.
He had a firm build for a man in his mid 30s and was relatively trimmed, but that was always hidden under thick black frames, his cream sweaters, gray creased slacks and dress shirts he was famous for sporting on a daily basis. If there was a geek of the week award, it was always his.
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But of course his style was all a show to one day grab the attention of Ms. Harper, one day.
